I was recently asked to speak at the North Carolina Forestry Association’s annual meeting in Myrtle Beach on the above captioned topic. Before agreeing to the talk, I had to think about it for a while. The quote “Its tough to make predictions, especially about the future” attributed to Yogi...
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RUNA |
14 years 9 months ago
According to the Ministry of Economic Development, fiberboard production output decreased by 26.1%, of chipboards – by 20.7%, plywood – by 18.7%, sawn timber 12.2%, door and window units – by 33.4 and 46.1% respectively. Decreased production output of pulp and paper products is explained by...
Kaieteur News |
14 years 9 months ago
The mining community is up in arms against the government’s proposals to institute some stricter guidelines over their industry. While the government has gone to some length to deny any linkages between their initiative and their championing of forest conservation on the world stage, the...
NEXT |
14 years 9 months ago
An international forestry monitoring group, Nature Conservation Resource Centre (NCRC) has completed an 11- day study tour of the carbon stock of forest projects in Cross River State in line with the state’s agitation for carbon credit facility by the UN, World Bank and the US. The state...
Dead Tree Edition |
14 years 9 months ago
Studying the fine print of tax legislation helped International Paper earn more than $2 billion last year in black liquor credits from the federal government.
14 years 9 months ago
It is possible that the environmental challenge in Africa that will have the biggest impact on the rest of the world is the degradation of the Congo Basin rainforest. According to Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai, in her 2009 book The Challenge for Africa, the cutting down of trees in the Congo...
FAO |
14 years 9 months ago
The need for an effective and low cost forest and biodiversity restoration and rehabilitation methods is now highlighted in the face of climate change and the global phenomenon of rapid loss of forests and biodiversity. An estimated 850 million hectares of degraded forests exist globally. This...
RUNA |
14 years 9 months ago
CJSC North-West Group of Companies finished works on construction of pellet mill worth 300 mln RUR (€ 7.14 mln) in Podporozhye (Leningrad region) with Anritz (Denmark), BRUKS (Germany) and Komforts (Latvia) machinery installed. Currently staff makes up 75 people. Annual mill capacity is to reach...
AM1150 |
14 years 9 months ago
MONTREAL - The federal government can help rescue Canada's battered forestry industry and thousands of jobs by providing $1.5 billion in funds to encourage diversification to new eco-friendly uses such as biochemicals and bio energy, says a new study released Monday. The forest industry needs to...
Xfm95.1 News |
14 years 9 months ago
The European Delegation in Ghana is working with the Ministry of Forestry and Natural Resources to curb the importation of illegally logged timber from the country to the European market. As a first step in this direction, the Government of Ghana and the European Union in November 2009, signed...
CNN |
14 years 9 months ago
ECO2 Forests Inc. (PINKSHEETS: ECOF), announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire controlling interest in certain projects of Forest Guard Inc., a privately held company specializing in for profit Avoided Deforestation projects. Following the acquisition, ECO2 intends to...
International Monetary Fund |
14 years 9 months ago
The world must adopt a low-carbon model for growth as it rebuilds from the global economic crisis, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, said at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Strauss-Kahn proposes “Green Fund” to help finance shift to low-carbon...
The Jarkata Post |
14 years 9 months ago
The government said it remained in the dark over how to apply for climate change funds that were promised by rich nations at the recent Copenhagen summit. No clear mechanism to establish how such funds will be disbursed has been established following the completion of the summit in December 2009...
IPS News |
14 years 9 months ago
KATHMANDU, Feb 2, 2010 (IPS) - Tired of walking, Shankar Prasad Ghimire, 87, a retired government worker, puts his walking stick aside and takes rest on a vast expanse of lush green land. Such dramatic backdrop of dense forest cover gives this former bureaucrat reason to be proud. As chairman of...
Vietnam News |
14 years 9 months ago
HA NOI — The forestry sector's biggest difficulty is to balance the relationship between hunger elimination and poverty reduction and its development, a conference heard yesterday in Ha Noi. In an annual review meeting of the Forest Sector Support Partnership yesterday, Deputy Minister of...
Climate-L |
14 years 9 months ago
1 February 2010: The latest issue of the International Tropical Timber Organization’s (ITTO) newsletter, Tropical Forest Update, includes an article that questions whether payments for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD) can make natural...
IUCN |
14 years 9 months ago
This study reviews the financial costs of abating greenhouse gas emissions through reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD). It is written from the perspective of an institutional investor seeking cost-effective climate mitigation options.
Stabroek News |
14 years 9 months ago
Guyana hopes to conclude discussions with the World Bank and Norway in February to receive an initial US$30M through the forest preservation agreement with Oslo. “We have complied with all of the conditions for last year. The only outstanding thing now is the settlement of the trust fund mechanism...
International Forest Industries |
14 years 9 months ago
RWE Innogy is to build a factory to produce biomass pellets in the southern part of the U.S. state of Georgia. The plant will have an annual production capacity of 750,000 tonnes, making it the biggest and most modern of its type in the world, the company says. Around 1.5 million metric tonnes...